Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts

ISBN-13: 9781138496477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Dreck Spurlock Wilson

Opis

Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first African American architects in America. Despite racial segregation at the beginning of the 20^th century, Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Spis treści

1. Advantages of Family, Color and Place 2. Institute of Colored Youth 3. Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art 4. University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture 5. Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts 6. North by Northwest 7. Out of South Philly 8. Office of Horace Trumbauer 9. Philadelphia T-Square Club 10. Personal Azimuth 11. Pennsylvania Museum of Art 12. A Great Towering Church 13. American Institute of Architects 14. In My Father's House 15. Epilogue

O autorze

Dreck Spurlock Wilson is a graduate of Iowa State University, USA and the University of Chicago, USA. He was an Associate Professor of Architectural History at Howard University and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Morgan State University and is a licensed landscape architect. Dreck is the editor and a contributing author of the Biographical Dictionary of African American Architects, 1865–1945 also published by Taylor & Francis.